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Sunday, April 28, 2013

A Russian Billionaire Bought Aristotle Onassis’ Island

The
daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has bought the Greek resort
island where shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis famously married Jacqueline
Kennedy in the 1960s.

Greek media
reports on Saturday placed the value of Skorpios island at over $100 million
and said Ekaterina Rybolovleva, 24, wanted it not only for leisure but also
business purposes.

She
purchased Skorpios, in the Ionian Sea off western Greece, from Onassis’
28-year-old granddaughter, Athena Onassis Roussel, the only surviving descendant
of the shipping magnate.

Aristotle
Onassis purchased Skorpios in 1963 and turned the barren island into a luxury
resort by planting thousands of trees and importing sand. In 1968 he married
Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

After
Aristotle Onassis’s death in 1975, Skorpios passed to his daughter Christina,
who died of a heart attack at 37 in the late 1980s after a history of drug
abuse, weight issues and four failed marriages.

Onassis,
his son Alexander, who was killed in an airplane crash aged 25, and Christina
were buried on Skorpios. Athena Onassis Roussel was three when her mother died.

The island
is covered with 200 species of trees, brought by Onassis to once deserted
island. The island has several beaches, best known is East Beach, where Onassis
brought sand from the island of Salamis.

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